Stakes

From the lake

Where I lost it all

Stacked on the stakes

Yet you blessed the fall

I guess that I knew I was warned

I left my words in the cold

The things that I built for myself

Castles are tumbling down

Surrender the heir, savour the crown

Here lies where I drown

The first time that I sought for grace

But not the last lung I'd put to waste

I'm burning down the stakes

Wash away, wash away (2x)

Tumbling through this jaded book

The hearts I stole, the air I took

What love is this

And now the photograph is all that's left

To feed the wolves and empty chests

To break the best

The first time that I sought for grace

But not the last lung I'd put to waste

I'm burning down the stakes

Wash away, wash away (4x)

I never bled for a thousand lies

Just to stem the flow

I never wept over a thousand lives

Just to let this go (2x)

Wash away, wash away, wash away, wash away